David Ignatius | America's energy future getting steadily brighter

9:53 PM,
Jan. 24, 2014

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David Ignatius
Columnist

WASHINGTON - For decades, Americans have talked about "energy policy" as if it were the political equivalent of a migraine. The phrase connoted pain - in ever-rising gas prices, costly government schemes and dependence on imports from precarious Middle East regimes.

But recent developments involving energy production and technology have been so astonishing that they should puncture this long-running pessimism. The amazing fact is that on nearly every front, America's energy prospects have improved in ways that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago.